桟

Meaning

桟 centers on a temporary or supporting wooden structure: a scaffold, a frame, a jetty, or a cleat. The bolt sense extends this idea to a wooden bar used to secure a door.

• 桟橋さんばし
  N1

  wharf; bridge; jetty; pier

• 桟えつり

  sheathing (under thatched roofing)

• 桟さん

  frame (i.e. of a sliding door)

• 桟敷さじき

  dress circle (of a theatre); (first) balcony; box

• つんぼ桟敷つんぼさじき

  being kept uninformed; being cut off; out of the loop

• 天井桟敷てんじょうさじき

  gallery (in a theatre); upper gallery; cheap seats; nosebleed section; the gods

• 桟を打ち付けるさんをうちつける

  to nail a crosspiece (to)

• 桟俵さんだわら

  straw lid covering either end of a rice container

• 桟唐戸さんからど

  panelled wooden door

• 桟戸さんど

  batten door; battened door; ledged door; strong door with crosspieces placed on the reverse side

• 桟瓦さんがわら

  pantile

• 桟留縞さんとめじま

  striped cotton fabric imported from Sao Tome, also copied in Japan

• 桟竹えつりだけ

  sheathing (under thatched roofing)

• 桟道さんどう

  plank path (on a steep mountainside, cliff face, etc.); walkway

• 横桟よこざん

  horizontal bar; crosspiece; crossbar; crossrail; rung (of a ladder)

• 浮き桟橋うきさんばし

  floating pier

• 窓の桟まどのさん

  window frame; window sill

• 障子の桟しょうじのさん

  frame of a shoji (paper sliding-door)

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